Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 2 | For instance , building-society deposits , bank cash accounts , and National Savings holdings all rose sharply throughout the period , especially with high interest rates prevailing for almost the whole of the 1970s . |
| 3 | oh you it 's due for about a bit more then |
| 4 | Well I think that we 've seen the erm tremendous growth in word processors , and this is erm an area which I feel will develop enormously , and it really would be quite possible for nearly every home to have a word processor within it . |
| 5 | In such a case it is possible for either the seller or the buyer to commit an anticipatory breach of contract , i.e. to repudiate the contract before the time for performance . |
| 6 | In response , Congress , in the 1974 Act , included provisions requiring the president to report impoundments to the legislature , making it possible for either the House or the Senate to compel the release of impounded funds , and obliging the executive to spend them in accordance with legislative intent . |
| 7 | The increasing amount of business to be handled meant that more and more decisions were now taken by officials , even merely middle-ranking ones : it was no longer possible for almost every question to go to the minister himself for final decision , as had hitherto been normal . |
| 8 | Rain spoiled the opening day of Durham 's first match as a first-class county to the extent that play was possible for only the morning session , which allowed Paul Parker and John Glendenen to put on 119 in an untroubled manner off 34 overs . |
| 9 | According to Hearn the WPBSA intends to take only 16 players for a week to its overseas events instead of 32 for nearly a fortnight . |
| 10 | Ideally , an archaeologist wants to obtain as much information as possible about both the stratigraphy of a site and its plan , but there is a conflict between the two approaches . |
| 11 | I , I maybe fall asleep for maybe an hour or two and then I 'm woken and I 'm coughing all the time . |
| 12 | HaL Computer Systems Inc , Campbell , California , remains one of the most difficult companies to ferret information out of so we 're grateful for even a glimmer of intelligence . |
| 13 | These had been kept intact for almost a century by Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson and her descendants . |
| 14 | And have you been taking that for quite a while ? |
| 15 | And I carried on doing that for quite a number of years and I managed to be voted onto the Edinburgh committee . |
| 16 | On the other hand there 's a part of me that rejoices , that is glad he paid the way he did , that for once the world worked the way it 's supposed to , punishing the wrongdoer … and that saddens and sickens me too , because I think that this must be the way Andy feels all the time . |
| 17 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 18 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 19 | Ploughing through this for almost an hour brought us well into the hillside and at length to where the rail bed rose out of the water and into the old engine room . |
| 20 | ‘ This is the first time we 've had ones like this for quite a while . ’ |
| 21 | We remained like this for about a quarter of a minute . |
| 22 | Taking everything into consideration , the 1993 Coca Cola North West 200 — which is the 64th of the series — must be the most open and potentially exciting for quite a number of years . |
| 23 | The lucky ones have found jobs , of course , but many others have now been unemployed for over a year — or even two years in a significant number of cases . |
| 24 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 25 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 26 | The bungalow , in a pretty Worcestershire village , has been empty for nearly a year . |
| 27 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 28 | It is clear that prophecy was part of the experience of the people of God in the Bible ( see Numbers 11:20,1 Samuel 19:20 , Joel 2:28 , Acts 2:18 ; 15:22 ; 19:6 ; 21:9 , 1 Corinthians 11:4–5 ; 12:28 ; 14:1 and 24 , Ephesians 4:11,1 Thessalonians 5:20 for just a sample of instances ) . |
| 29 | There was a bar with no booze and a store , of sorts , where we bought some of almost every item we recognized , including carrots , processed cheese and chocolate , which tasted like cocoa-flavoured sugar . |
| 30 | Skulls of aliens adorned the banner-hung , tapestried walls , their eyeless sockets forever blinded to the mysteries of those who had mastered them , their hollow craniums empty of even the ghost of a twisted , unhuman thought . |